Astronomers find new planet capable of supporting life

[sealybobo]

Excuse my cynicism but the same "scientists" who think life on earth is doomed for some green related reason or another actually get away with telling us that a planet 22 light years away is suitable for human life strictly based on it's proximity to it's energy source. Let me know when the improved telescopes see people waving and then I'll be a believer.

And does E REALLY equal MC squared?

 

[sealybobo]

If that meteor hadn't crashed into the earth making the hole we call the Gulf of Mexico and wiping out the dominant reptile life forms, we might still exist as little rodents trying to avoid getting stomped on by T-Rex and his buddies.

Chances are, even if there is life on another planet, it probably won't be intelligent like us. That was a fluke. Or intelligent design.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Good liberals global warmers gays Statist socialist now have a place they can move too and leave the rest of us alone

 

[Two Thumbs]

While it's nice to know that there are planets out there...

?

really? 22 million light years away? and it's 4.5 times our size?

It may be inhabited, but we can't live there or even visit.

money down the hole, never to be seen again so that scientist can get paid to play at their hobby.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

While it's nice to know that there are planets out there...

?

really? 22 million light years away? and it's 4.5 times our size?

It may be inhabited, but we can't live there or even visit.

money down the hole, never to be seen again so that scientist can get paid to play at their hobby.

Look stop with the downing news Let the liberals build their rocket and take off for that planet who cares if they don't make it?

 

[Two Thumbs]

While it's nice to know that there are planets out there...

?

really? 22 million light years away? and it's 4.5 times our size?

It may be inhabited, but we can't live there or even visit.

money down the hole, never to be seen again so that scientist can get paid to play at their hobby.

Look stop with the downing news Let the liberals build their rocket and take off for that planet who cares if they don't make it?

speed of light = 186,282 miles per second.

lets say we can get a rocket to do 100,000 miles per hour

divide by 60, divide by 60, uhhh, round off, ah fukkit


by the time they get there, they will have matured into conservatives since no one will be able to be a dead beat.

 

[Old Rocks]

LOL. You 'Conservatives' are always accusing liberals of being dead beats, yet it is the conservative states that get the dole from the federal government, while we liberals support your lazy ignorant asses.

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[konradv]

While it's nice to know that there are planets out there...

?

really? 22 million light years away? and it's 4.5 times our size?

It may be inhabited, but we can't live there or even visit.

money down the hole, never to be seen again so that scientist can get paid to play at their hobby.

22 light years away! We'd probably need ways to counter the gravity, but we should be able to visit. A lot depends on the density. A massive but less dense planet would have a large radius, lowering the gravity at the surface by the square of the distance to the center of mass.

 

[Two Thumbs]

While it's nice to know that there are planets out there...

?

really? 22 million light years away? and it's 4.5 times our size?

It may be inhabited, but we can't live there or even visit.

money down the hole, never to be seen again so that scientist can get paid to play at their hobby.

22 light years away! We'd probably need ways to counter the gravity, but we should be able to visit. A lot depends on the density. A massive but less dense planet would have a large radius, lowering the gravity at the surface by the square of the distance to the center of mass.

oh yeah, that's right, size doesn't matter.

but still, we are talking generations to get there. It would be one generation at light speed.

 

[OldManOnFire]

Say what now?

Intelligent life on Earth which has accomplished 'something' that can be detected outside of the Solar system by an extraterrestrial civilization...

That's a rather specific and inaccurate definition of "intelligent life," and is problematic in any case.

Just what do you believe the SETI research for all these years has been searching for?? They haven't been searching for chemical compounds and gases and water. They've been searching for radio signals. When did radio signals begin on Earth? Whenever this was is when signs of 'intelligent life' began. Two people miles apart on Earth pounding on their drums to communicate is unlikely to be picked up by extraterrestrials light-years away?

What is your definition of 'intelligent life'?

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Excuse my cynicism but the same "scientists" who think life on earth is doomed for some green related reason or another actually get away with telling us that a planet 22 light years away is suitable for human life strictly based on it's proximity to it's energy source. Let me know when the improved telescopes see people waving and then I'll be a believer.

Will you believe in gravity when you can see gravity?

 

[Unkotare]

Intelligent life on Earth which has accomplished 'something' that can be detected outside of the Solar system by an extraterrestrial civilization...

That's a rather specific and inaccurate definition of "intelligent life," and is problematic in any case.

Just what do you believe the SETI research for all these years has been searching for?? They haven't been searching for chemical compounds and gases and water. They've been searching for radio signals. When did radio signals begin on Earth? Whenever this was is when signs of 'intelligent life' began. Two people miles apart on Earth pounding on their drums to communicate is unlikely to be picked up by extraterrestrials light-years away?

What is your definition of 'intelligent life'?

You seriously don't know what 'intelligent life' means? As for the rest, you haven't thought it through very well, have you?

 

[OldManOnFire]

That's a rather specific and inaccurate definition of "intelligent life," and is problematic in any case.

Just what do you believe the SETI research for all these years has been searching for?? They haven't been searching for chemical compounds and gases and water. They've been searching for radio signals. When did radio signals begin on Earth? Whenever this was is when signs of 'intelligent life' began. Two people miles apart on Earth pounding on their drums to communicate is unlikely to be picked up by extraterrestrials light-years away?

What is your definition of 'intelligent life'?

You seriously don't know what 'intelligent life' means? As for the rest, you haven't thought it through very well, have you?

In terms of SETI...it is aliens with radios.

The 'intelligent life' definition you are so righteous about would be impossible to detect...

 

[Unkotare]

Just what do you believe the SETI research for all these years has been searching for?? They haven't been searching for chemical compounds and gases and water. They've been searching for radio signals. When did radio signals begin on Earth? Whenever this was is when signs of 'intelligent life' began. Two people miles apart on Earth pounding on their drums to communicate is unlikely to be picked up by extraterrestrials light-years away?

What is your definition of 'intelligent life'?

You seriously don't know what 'intelligent life' means? As for the rest, you haven't thought it through very well, have you?

In terms of SETI...it is aliens with radios.

The 'intelligent life' definition you are so righteous about would be impossible to detect...

*sigh*

Impossible for whom?

 

[whitehall]

Excuse my cynicism but the same "scientists" who think life on earth is doomed for some green related reason or another actually get away with telling us that a planet 22 light years away is suitable for human life strictly based on it's proximity to it's energy source. Let me know when the improved telescopes see people waving and then I'll be a believer.

Will you believe in gravity when you can see gravity?

I can't see gravity but I can feel it. I can see B.S. though. How about you? Can you sense a pleasant feeling of gravity 22 light years away along with the rest of the pipe dream?

 

[Caractacus]

It could be life at the level of bacteria or single-celled organisms if it's there at all. The trouble with these sorts of announcements is is that they're silly and, to me, are pretty much for publicity and to attract research $$$. A statement like this ought to be peer-reviewed by other scientific specialists, data compared and contrasted and whatnot, and then the news released via in a periodical or somesuch.

Take a look at this:

Astronomers have discovered their "holy grail" - a planet capable of supporting life outside our solar system.

O RLY?

Misleading.

It potentially has the capability of supporting life if, say, the measurements are correct and the data properly interpreted. As for any suggestions of intelligent extraterrestrial life... SETI has been looking for decades and hasn't found it yet.

 

[Old Rocks]

Suppose you have an isolated island community. They decide that they are going to look to see if there are other communties somewhere else in the world. So they send someone to the mountain tops to check for smoke signals every day.

Perhaps the problems with looking for radio signals concerning intelligent life is that what ever technological life exists out there may have already gone on to another superior technology. Electromagnetic communications technology may be a technological phase that exists for a very limited time in any advanced civilization.

 

[Caractacus]

Perhaps the problems with looking for radio signals concerning intelligent life is that what ever technological life exists out there may have already gone on to another superior technology. Electromagnetic communications technology may be a technological phase that exists for a very limited time in any advanced civilization.

I think the SETI people are aware of this but, as it stands, radio signals are the best means of communicaton long-distance available on Earth at the present. I read somewhere that they were looking into lasers or some other optical form of communication but, guess what, it's too expensive at the moment and SETI is a privately-funded organization now.

 

[Truthseeker420]

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree...

 

[Unkotare]

You seriously don't know what 'intelligent life' means? As for the rest, you haven't thought it through very well, have you?

In terms of SETI...it is aliens with radios.

The 'intelligent life' definition you are so righteous about would be impossible to detect...

*sigh*

Impossible for whom?

OldMan ducking this question?